How simple--and frugal--is this? UK blogger Just Jake does a creative makeover on an inexpensive ring-bound notebook to produce this bright and creative Christmas planner.

Finding her makeover material at the "pound store" (that's "dollar store" to us Yanks!), she's documented the before, during and after of turning a spare notebook into a work of Christmas art.

Innovation we love: a recycled clothes pin, or "peg" in UK parlance, stands in for a receipt envelope. Clever Jake!

Notebook Makeover: Jake's Christmas Planner

Planning for Christmas? Who wouldn't love to store gift lists and holiday menu plans in this fa-la-luscious example of a Christmas notebook?

Crafted by blogger Nancy, it's a great balance of creative inspiration and solid notebook divider pages.

Better, her eclectic, colorful approach is a great way to use bits and pieces of scrap paper to create a one-of-a-kind Christmas planner:

Fa-La-La-La-La-La Holiday Planner

Looking at some of our "over the top" Christmas planner tours, it can be hard to imagine using these works of art to actually organize the Christmas holidays.

That's why blogger Headly's hard-working Christmas notebook is worth the tour: it shows the nuts and bolts of using a Christmas planner to get organized for the holiday season.

We love her hands-on photo tour of a working Christmas planner:

Christmas Notebook Tour: Stay At Home Mom To Three Blog

It's a real-life Christmas notebook tour with a printable plus: a "Hassel-Free Holiday Planner"!

Blogger FawnDear, citing our Organized Christmas site (thank you, dearie!), joins the fun with a photo tour of her "Holiday Brain".

To inspire you, she's shared her personal Christmas countdown, and created a few free printable planning pages. Enjoy!

The Best Holiday Planner, By You, For You

Scrapbooker Kristin, blogging as Artfully Inking, shares a very creative Christmas planner with this notebook tour.

Using trimmed, oval-shaped Christmas Countdown forms from OrganizedChristmas.com, she's crafted pretty chipboard covers and dividers for a custom, one-of-a-kind creation.

Think all Christmas planners have to be artsy and "over the top" to make the grade? Not so! A simple three-ring binder notebook makes a fun and functional Christmas planner.

Check out this in-depth notebook tour from blogger Practically Pink as she follows the Holiday Grand Plan to prepare for the holiday season.

Taking you inside the covers of her Christmas planner, she shows the way to use this organizing tool to save time and cut stress as you get ready for Christmas:

Practically Pink's Holiday Grand Plan Notebook Tour

Visitors to OrganizedChristmas.com often wonder: how do you make a Christmas notebook? Check out this Christmas Notebook Tour from our friend, Melinda Whitehead.

Don't miss Melinda's printable cover and divider pages for the Christmas Countdown; she's made it easy to create a warm and inspiring notebook for the Holiday Grand Plan:

Christmas Notebook Tour

Scrapbookers take note: a Christmas notebook tour of a stunning example of the scrapbooker's art.

Shared as a flash slideshow, this beautiful Christmas planner by TwoPeas member AuntiNi is both beautiful and functional. (At the link, you'll need to click the small thumbnails below the photo to see all views of this Christmas planner.)

This Christmas Planning notebook could be used for the Housework Holiday Plan or the Christmas Countdown:

AuntNi's Christmas Planner

If a picture tells a thousand words, there's a long novel here: laurakaye's Holiday Grand Plan binder tour!

Wondering how to set up a Christmas notebook? She's leading the way with this page-by-page walk-through:

laurakaye's Holiday Grand Plan Binder

It's that time of year: we're building Christmas notebooks or holiday organizers to help us plan and prepare for the holiday season.

Need inspiration to make your notebook pretty? Check out this Flickr set! Pretty and practical notebook covers make it a delight to get ready for Christmas:

Christmas Notebook Covers